Rising temperatures are no match for Vietnam’s electricity grid, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
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At a press conference on Monday, the Ministry said that there will be no blackouts in the coming months despite increasing electricity demands due to heat waves, reports Thanh Nien.
Dinh The Phuc, deputy chief of the ministry's Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam said that demand peaked on May 28 when the country consumed 25,000 MW of electricity, lower than the national output of up to 30,000 MW.
Phuc added that the record temperatures in May resulted in a 13.56% increase in electricity consumption compared to the same month last year.
The Vietnamese capital has been particularly power hungry as of late with a 28% month-on-month increase as temperatures reached 40.3 degrees, a 44-year high.
The official asked that people do their best to save energy in the midst of the continuing heat wave that resulted in temperatures of 41 degrees in central Vietnam on Monday.
The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting reported that the heat wave is the longest in the region since 2000.
[Photo via Agustin Rafael Reyes]
